Janet hesitated as she trudged resignedly back to the living room, pausing for a moment to stare down the hall, towards her potential salvation from the coming humiliation… Or, potentially, a path to something even worse than what was already coming to her. In the end, she’d decided – and she refused to change her mind now – that it was better not to risk it. Risks didn’t pay off, after all… She was going to play it safe, and throw herself on Hazel’s mercy.
There was a movie playing on TV, and, to Janet’s surprise, it didn’t look like a movie specifically for kids. There were adults on-screen, anyway, and the acting didn’t seem quite as goofy as it did in a lot of childrens’ movies. Had Zella planned on letting her watch something a bit more mature? Or would she have changed the channel as soon as Janet was in there?
The answer, she suspected, was neither, after she spotted a small stack of coloring books and crayons on the coffee table. More than likely, until bedtime, Hazel was going to watch whatever this was, while Janet’s entertainment would be lying on the floor, coloring a pretty picture. Why else would the other girl have gotten them out? She probably wasn’t going to be allowed even that now.
Despite knowing that this was her house, that she could sit anywhere she wanted, and would hopefully have plenty of warning of Hazel’s approach to get down, Janet found herself automatically plopping herself down onto the floor, wrinkling her nose at the faint squish beneath her, the small, rapidly cooling patch in the crotch of her diaper. She didn’t want to get distracted by the TV, to get shocked by her babysitter’s appearance, to make that spot bigger.
That was going to be hard enough to avoid as it was. The longer she sat there, hearing the faint sound of water from the faucet in the sink, the fuller her bladder felt, the closer it was to letting go, making her have yet another accident. This was insane… She hadn’t had any problems keeping her pants dry for years, decades even, and now she’d had two in one night, and was on the verge of a third. Maybe Hazel had been right to put her in this diaper… Maybe she belonged in one.
No! Of course that wasn’t true! Janet was a grown-up, not some silly little toddler! She looked down at herself, at the crotch of her diaper, quite easily visible thanks to her lack of pants. It wasn’t that bad, she mused. She didn’t notice anything that seemed all that different than before, not that she’d examined the babyish garment this closely until now. Zella couldn’t get too angry at her if she couldn’t even see the evidence from outside the diaper.
And yet, that did very little to keep Janet from feeling anxious when she heard the girl’s footsteps approaching, prompting her to snap her eyes and hands upwards, away from the padding, and, when Hazel appeared and the doorway, scramble to her feet and over to her. She didn’t want Zella to know, didn’t want to say it out loud, to admit what she’d done, but if she didn’t do it now, it would look way worse when, inevitably, the sitter did find out.
“I’m really sorry!” she blurted out, staring down at her feet bashfully. “Y-You scared me before, in the kitchen, a-and I had an accident, a-and I didn’t mean to! Y-You can be mad at me if you want, but please, can I just go to the bathroom first? I really hafta go, a-and I don’t think I’ll make it through another time-out, and…”
“Calm down!” Hazel chuckled, ruffling the older girl’s hair. “I already know. Do you think I don’t know what a wet diaper feels like? After all that time I spent babysitting you?”
“I-I dunno,” Janet blushed and shrugged. She sincerely didn’t; she, of course, hadn’t been the one getting babysat then.
“I am glad you told me, though,” Zella smiled gently down at her. “I’m proud of you for not trying to hide it. That’s surprisingly mature of you, sweetie.”
“Th-Thanks,” Janet nodded, wishing those words hadn’t made her feel so good. She was an adult… She shouldn’t need, or want, praise for something so simple and childish, but here she was. “D-Does that mean I can go to the bathroom?”
“Of course you can,” Hazel said. “You could have gone all along, you little goof. I said I’d take away your potty privileges if you kept throwing a tantrum, but you didn’t do that, did you?”
“Huh?” Janet pouted. “Th-Then…?”
“It would hardly be fair of me to expect you to keep your diaper clean and dry if you couldn’t use the bathroom, now would it?” Zella shook her head. “How mean do you think I am?” Janet decided not to answer that, still stunned at the revelation. She’d gotten so worked up, trying to decide it she should risk running to the toilet or not, and, apparently, she could have done that all along. “What’s wrong, Prissy?” Janet teased. “Do you need your big step-sister to take you to the potty?”
“No!” Janet protested, as Hazel took her by the hand. “No, I can do it myself!”
“Clearly not,” Hazel replied. “You’ve had all this time to go tinkle on your own, and you didn’t take it… That’s okay, cutie, I’m here to help!”
Janet’s cheeks blazed bright red as the younger girl led her into the bathroom, slipping the diaper down over her hips, picking her up and setting her on the toilet. Janet’s legs, diaper around her knees, kicked nervously, waiting for Zella to leave her alone, while the babysitter took a peek inside the thing she’d just removed.
“I guess that’s not too bad,” she conceded, “but that diaper definitely isn’t completely dry, is it?”
“N-No,” Janet shook her head. “C-Can we talk about this later?”
“There’s not going to be a later, sweetie,” Hazel informed her. “After this, you’re brushing your teeth and going to bed, little one.”
“What?!” Janet squealed. “No! It’s still so early!”
“Yes,” Zella countered. “You already got to stay up later than I normally would have let you, and you didn’t even have to go to bed with an empty tummy. But I think you’ve proven you deserve to be in diapers for the rest of the weekend, like a baby… And babies need all the rest they can get.”
“B-But I told you!” Janet whined. “That’s not fair!”
“Yes, you did,” Hazel agreed. “And, because of that, I’ll hold off on telling your Mommy about all this… But you still went pee-pee in your diapie, and this was our arrangement. Now, would you like to keep throwing a fit so you can lose your potty privileges, too?”
Janet blushed, shaking her head quickly. It would be bad enough to have to wear these big, thick, crinkly diapers for the entire weekend… She didn’t want to have to use them the whole time, too!
“Then you’d better go ahead and use them while you have them,” Hazel encouraged her. “Once I get you diapered for bed, you aren’t getting up until the morning.”
“B-But you said…” Janet protested.
“I think you had the right idea,” Zella interrupted. “Having to come to me to use the potty… That way, I don’t have to worry about you trying to take your diaper off and ruining the tapes, or trying to cheat somehow. Besides, this is too cute,” she booped Janet on the nose. “If I catch you in the bathroom without me, you won’t be back in here, except for baths and brushing your teeth, for the rest of the weekend. If you keep peeing yourself, it’ll be the same thing. If you can’t control yourself, I’m not wasting my time running you back and forth to the toilet every five minutes… If your Mommy wants me to potty train you again, she’ll have to pay my babysitting fees, because I don’t do that for free, even for my baby sister.”
“I’m already potty trained!” Janet blushed.
“Then prove it,” Hazel urged. “I haven’t heard any tinkles… I can’t imagine that little puddle in your pants is all you had in you. Go ahead, finish up… I don’t want to be in here all night.”
“Can’t you go out in the hall or something?” Janet nibbled her bottom lip.
“What’s wrong?” Zella mocked. “Is your bladder shy? Now? That’s funny… It had no problem letting go in front of me earlier… Twice.”
“That was different!” Janet whined. “Come on, this isn’t fair!”
“Prissy,” Hazel knelt down, looking her in the eyes. “You can use the potty here, now, or you can go in your diaper later, in private… Or, you can go in the morning, after I come to get you up, and not a second before, if you can make it, although I doubt you’ll be able to. Do you?”
Janet shook her head bashfully; she was an adult, and a perfectly well-potty-trained one at that, but she knew there was zero chance she’d be able to hold it another hour, much less through the night. That would be so humiliating, lying in bed, having to pee her pants, and go to sleep in it, waking up in a wet diaper like a bedwetter… She couldn’t let that happen.
With a sigh, she closed her eyes, trying to pretend Hazel wasn’t right there, standing in front of her, that she couldn’t feel the plastic of the diaper around her legs, ready to go back into place once she was done here. She did her best to act like she was all alone, that this was a normal trip to the bathroom and nothing else, letting her bladder relax, splash its contents out into the toilet beneath her.
“Good girl,” Hazel praised, breaking her illusion, pulling her back into the real world. “Are you all done?”
Janet nodded, squeaking as Zella lifted her down off the toilet seat, bending her over slightly to start wiping her dry. “I can do that myself!” she exclaimed, squirming in place.
“I certainly hope you’ve gotten better at that than you were last time I sat you,” Hazel teased, “but you’ve already dawdled long enough. We need to get you into bed.” She slid the diaper back up, set Janet in front of the sink once more, although, this time, thankfully, it was with a toothbrush instead of a bar of soap. She stayed there behind her, watching as she brushed, then led her off, down the hall.
There was no real surprise that she didn’t take Janet to her actual bedroom – it would have been strange for her to take the person she thought was her step-sister to her father’s room – but it was weird that Hazel didn’t seem to be hesitating, acting as if she knew exactly where she was going. There were plenty of bedrooms in the house… What made her so confident she’d figured out which one ‘Prissy’ had chosen?
Despite the humiliation she’d just suffered, Janet felt a wave of calm settling over her. This was it, she thought… Hazel was going to realize none of the bedrooms in the house were set up for a little girl. The spare bedrooms were all exactly that – spare, empty other than a bed and dresser, and far too bland and clean for anyone to believe a child was staying there. Finally, Zella was going to have to face the truth…
Janet couldn’t hide her smirk as she watched Hazel reach out for the doorknob of one of the guest rooms, knowing this was the beginning of the end of this whole affair. Perhaps, after this, she’d ask Janet which room was hers, or maybe she’d just try another on her own. Either way, they could go through the whole house, and they’d never find what Zella was looking for.
“What the hell is this?!” Janet squealed when the door swung open, her jaw dropping. She didn’t spend a lot of time in the guest rooms, since there was nothing in there… Or so she’d thought.
“Isn’t it nice?” Hazel smirked, pushing the smaller girl inside, easily ignoring her best efforts to stay away, to avoid what she was seeing in there. “Dad’s a bit of a pack-rat, so I knew he had all my old stuff stored away. While you were in your time-out, I dragged this out of the attic for you. There’s more I can set up if we need it, but I figured this would be good enough for tonight.”
“Y-You don’t actually expect me to sleep in that, do you?” Janet wrinkled her nose, staring at the crib. It was large and ornate – she was impressed, if she was being honest, that Zella had been able to get it out of the attic by herself – like she would have expected from Harrison, who didn’t like to do things halfway. She could probably fit into it with no real problems… But there was no way she was going to spend the night in a crib!
“Of course I do,” Hazel chuckled, as if the question was ridiculous. “Why else would it be here? I didn’t set it up for fun… I know there’s a bed here, too, but that’s going to be your changing table for now, unless I have to get that down, too, and take out the bed so it doesn’t confuse your silly little brain.”
“B-But why can’t I just sleep in it?” Janet pouted, staring at the heavy, wooden bars of the crib and swallowing anxiously.
“There isn’t even a plastic sheet on it,” Hazel informed her, giving the changing pad she already had spread out on it a crinkly pat. “And I suspect, if you’re still having trouble during the day, you haven’t gotten over your bedwetting, either, have you?”
“Yes, I have!” Janet squeaked, cheeks blazing bright red. “I-I mean, I never did! I don’t wet the bed!”
“We’ll see about that,” Zella smirked, giving the girl’s damp diaper a pat. “Now, go on… Get up onto the changing pad so I can get you ready for bed, Prissy.”
Janet glared up at the girl unhappily. She’d never imagined it would go this far… It was bad enough Hazel had diapers on hand for her, but an actual crib, too?! She just couldn’t imagine spending the whole night in that awful thing… She really want to stomp her foot, to yell at Hazel again about how she didn’t belong here, how she was a grown-up and wasn’t about to allow her to do this to her… Would it make any difference, though?
Hazel had let go of her, however, was by the bed now… Janet was a few steps closer to the door. If she took off, even with her shorter legs, and the bulk of her diaper, she could likely get to it before Zella, slam it shut, which would slow her captor down further, maybe make it all the way outside… She wasn’t sure what she’d do from there, since she didn’t have her keys, and wouldn’t want anyone else to see her… Although, at this point, it might be better to bite the bullet and go to the neighbors for help. She wouldn’t have time to stop for anything to cover her diaper, but that would only prove how serious the situation was, how crazy Hazel was behaving.
Or… She gulped, staring at the changing pad, at the diaper bag sitting beside it, back over at the crib. Hazel had been proud of her for telling the truth about her accident… It hadn’t stopped her from making Janet come to her to use the bathroom from then on, but she could have made it worse… She could have taken away her potty privileges immediately. Was it better to weather the storm, accept her fate for the night? She didn’t want to feel like she was giving up, tossing away her adulthood… How was she going to be able to face Harrison when he returned, knowing that, in a matter of hours, she’d resigned herself to being diapered and put to bed in a crib before the clock had even struck seven, by his daughter, someone younger than her? If she kept giving in, doing what Hazel wanted, was she going to be able to think of herself as an adult again once this weekend was over?
What was she going to do?!
Throw a tantrum and insist she be allowed to sleep in another room, or at least the actual bed?
Make a break for it, and try to get out of the house?
Or accept her diaper change, and the crib, like a good little girl?
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